Fear & Loathing In The Financial District

The Beacon crew has an eight-minute snapshot of the Summer at Tompkins 2k24.

Juan Reyna and his crew have a new 20-minute video out called SMOOCH, which is entirely filmed in New York. Always impressed that the E. 9th Street triangle continued to live on as a functional spot despite the reconstruction that made it fifty times worse.

Jerry Fowler — a late 90s/early 2000s pro who was ahead of the curve on multiple waves of ledge skating — filmed a selfie part for Orchard, his hometown shop in Boston.

Slam City Skates interviewed Will Miles about the making of QuickStrike.

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Weekend Viewing — POP Trading Company’s ‘POP’ Video

In the latter half of the 2010s, POP Trading Company’s “POP Clips” — videoblog style reels of footage from the scene in The Netherlands and Belgium — singlehandedly programmed us away from the idea that skateboarding in those countries was predominantly done on/around cobblestones. (Still haven’t visited either, but you could understand why a McDonald’s brain might assume that, when in fact, the place’s spots can look like this.) These were lesser-known skaters, skating lesser-known spots, with every bit of the talent and style as those in Europe’s mega-scenes situated in London, Paris, Barcelona, et al.

Since crystalizing into a proper Brand, the crew moved away from the “POP Clips” in pursuit of, at first, the 2021 POP Promo, and today, into POP: The 48-Minute Video, which doubles as a scene video as much as one for a softgoods imprint.

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11-Hour Flight — Daniel Wheatley’s ‘Soul Crusher’ Video Is Now Live

📷 Photo by James Griffiths

A crew of guys named Billy Trick, Ollie Lock, Mingus Gamble, Judah Bubes, a dude named Matlok (not to be confused with Matlock), and Andrew Allen’s homie Carl walk into a bar.

What do you get?

You get the greatest ensemble roster of Skate Names in a video ever. (So despite what the screengrab nestled in there about not remembering anybody’s name may purport, you’re remembering these.)

Soul Crusheror is it Blanket? — is the latest video by Daniel Wheatley, who you likely remember as the mind behind Lottie’s Must Be Stopped from five years ago, and a number of other smaller projects since. Filmed between half-living in Los Angeles, and the rest half-living in London, the video is a showcase for Mr. Bennett Jones and Mr. Gamble, while a gyrating cast from the Baker-verse and Palace-sphere roll through for cameos — until a shocking guest trick from a dude who has been …sight unseen for quite some time now ;)

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